Re: + bootmem-node-setup-agnostic-free_bootmem.patch added to -mm tree

["Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
>
>
>  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>
>  > * akpm@linux-foundation.org <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Subject: bootmem: node-setup agnostic free_bootmem()
>  >> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
>  >>
>  >> Make free_bootmem() look up the node holding the specified address
>  >> range which lets it work transparently on single-node and multi-node
>  >> configurations.
>  >
>  > this patch does not fix the bug Yinghai's (now dropped) patches solved:
>  > reserve_early() allocations. So NAK until the full problem has been
>  > sorted out ...
>
>  Okay, NAK on -mm and -x86 for sure.  The patch was meant for mainline
>  where there is no need for free_bootmem() going across nodes, right?
>
>  But I still object to the way Yinghai implemented it.
>  free_bootmem_core() should not be twisted like this.
>
>  How about the following (untested, even uncompiled, but you should get
>  the idea) proposal which would replace the patch discussed in this
>  thread:
>
>  --- tree-linus.orig/mm/bootmem.c
>  +++ tree-linus/mm/bootmem.c
>  @@ -421,7 +421,25 @@ int __init reserve_bootmem(unsigned long
>
>
>   void __init free_bootmem(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
>   {
>  -       free_bootmem_core(NODE_DATA(0)->bdata, addr, size);
>  +       bootmem_data_t *bdata;
>  +
>  +       list_for_each_entry(bdata, &bdata_list, list) {
>  +               unsigned long remainder = 0;
>
> +
>  +               if (addr < bdata->node_boot_start)
>  +                       continue;
>  +
>  +               if (PFN_DOWN(addr + size) > bdata->node_low_pfn)
>  +                       remainder = PFN_DOWN(addr + size) - bdata->node_low_pfn;
>  +
>  +               size -= PFN_PHYS(remainder);
>
> +               free_bootmem_core(bdata, addr, size)
>  +
>  +               if (!remainder)
>  +                       break;
>  +
>  +               addr = PFN_PHYS(bdata->node_low_pfn + 1);
>  +       }
>
>  }
>
>   unsigned long __init free_all_bootmem(void)

how about
1. bdata is not sorted?
2. intel cross node box: node0: 0g-2g, 4g-6g, node1: 2g-4g, 6g-8g. i
don't think they have two bdata struct for every node.

YH